The Ceremonial City: History, memory and myth in Renaissance Venice
Iain Fenlon

Yale University Press, £30 (978-0-300-11937-4).
Church Times Bookshop £27

A detail from Pompeo Batoni’s The Triumph of Venice (1732); from the book, which focuses on, and sets in historical context, the main events that took place in Venice in the 1570s, culminating in an outbreak of the plague in which a quarter of the population died.

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